Mascherano Relishing Inter Miami CF Role : “It Is a Privilege to be Here”

December 3, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Inter Miami CF News Release

Inter Miami CF presented the Club’s newest face Tuesday afternoon, with recently appointed head coach Javier Mascherano%20season.) being introduced to the media alongside managing owner Jorge Mas in a press conference at Chase Stadium.

“I am very happy to be able to introduce Javier as the leader of our club for us to continue dreaming, to continue achieving titles and the goals that we as owners, as a club, have set for ourselves,” said Mas. “He embodies what we want. He embodies passion, he embodies hard work. His trajectory as a player at the highest levels of football was extraordinary. He has experience for us that is unique in the fact that he has been the coach of our promising young players and has experience with the most important players of this club. But most importantly, are his human characteristics and his values and his coaching philosophy. I think he will be a tremendous ambassador for our club on a day-to-day basis. So for me, it’s an honor to have him heading our club.”

“It is a pleasure, a privilege to be here. The truth is that it is a huge challenge for me to be able to coach this club that has a very ambitious project. The team obviously has big names, but also very young people that I have been lucky enough to coach as well. So, I have a great desire, great enthusiasm, for this great opportunity that has been presented to me in my career,” stated Mascherano.

With his appointment, Mascherano’s journey with Inter Miami has gone full circle after nearly being part of the Club’s inaugural roster in 2020. Notably, upon his arrival he reunites with several familiar faces. He shared the pitch with Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez during his playing days, and most recently worked with several of Inter Miami’s rising stars at different stages during his time at the helm of Argentina’s U-20 and Olympic national team: Tomás Avilés (who was part of Argentina’s roster for the U-20 FIFA World Cup 2023), Benjamin Cremaschi, Facundo Farías and Federico Redondo.

“We spent a whole night together because at that time I was looking at the possibility of bringing Macherano to play his last year as a player for our club and then continue as a coach in our club, and especially to help us build an amazing academy system here… And for whatever reason the deal didn’t go through. But five years later, he’s here. So it’s fate.’

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